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0 pointsgenxy23d ago0 comments

The author of weval is the top comment.

Reading the comments and understanding that transitively, weval turns interpreters into compilers, allowing interpreters to generate machine code.

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direwolf2022d ago

If you turn milk into cheese it isn't milk any more, and it doesn't prove that milk is a yellow solid.

genxyOP19d ago

We lost the plot here.

What are your goals, to let everyone know that interpreters, definitionally don't generate code? This isn't debate club.

I dropped a cool link that shows we have a machine that turns interpreters into compilers. I am talking about the machine. You are talking about the definition. We aren't talking about the same thing.

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